After dinner, the family sat around the kang table and counted the money they had earned today. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info When Xiao'er took out a silver ingot of ten taels, Liu's eyes widened: "These ten taels were obtained from selling things?"

"Yes, today there is an uncle surnamed Zhou who bought our fruit and gave it. ”

"Those fruits were sold for so much money?" Liu Shi was a little unconvinced, although the fruits that Xiao'er picked back from the mountains were indeed delicious, she had never seen such delicious and beautiful fruits, but ten taels were too valuable.

"Really, Xiao'er said to let the uncle look at it, and the uncle gave us ten taels, and the sugar-fried chestnuts also gave an extra 10 wen. ”

"How can you ask someone for more than ten cents!" Liu disagreed.

"He took our basket and said that it would be the money to buy the basket. Xiao'er explained.

Hearing this, Liu Shi stretched her brows, she was worried that the child would develop a bad habit of being greedy for small and cheap.

The rest are copper plates, and everyone strung them together with ropes while counting.

Xiao'er felt that she would have to buy some pens, ink, paper, and inkstones when she went to town tomorrow, and she needed to make an account book to keep track of her family's income and expenses. Today, before selling sugar fried chestnuts, I sold a total of 32 catties, sent out 8 catties, and got 384 wen, plus 100 wen from the middle-aged uncle, just selling chestnuts sold for 484 wen, herbs sold for 1,138 wen, plus ten taels of silver for fruits, deducting the cost of ten wen sugar for fried chestnuts with sugar and two wen for entering the city, a total of 11 taels of six hundred and 10 wen.

"Those herbs and chestnuts actually earned more than a thousand Wen, I really can't imagine it. Liu looked at the pile of strings of copper plates and sighed, if every episode was sold, then Jing Rui and Jing Hao would not have silver to go to school.

"Dad will also go up the mountain to dig medicinal herbs diligently in the future, and when he earns money, he will send your brother to school and buy beautiful clothes for Xiao'er and Xiaomei. Shen Chengyao felt that the money was beginning to be bright.

Xiao'er calculated all the property in the family now, "Last time I went to the town to buy things, it cost a total of 2,320 Wen, and during the autumn harvest, she went to the town to buy rice, flour, grain and oil, and also used 200 Wen, plus other miscellaneous expenses of 50 Wen, and recently used a total of 2,570 Wen, which also means that the ten taels of the divided family are left with 72,430 Wen, plus the 11,2610 Wen earned today, and now we have a total of 19,240 Wen." ”

"And so many more. Liu felt very satisfied.

"Not much, far from enough, I plan to make more money and send my brother and younger brother to school in the spring of next year. ”

"Send Hao'er away, I'll help make money at home. Jing Rui knew that it costs a lot of money to study, and there will not be enough money for two people in the family, although he also wants to read, but he knows that Jing Hao is smarter than him, and he is an elder brother who has to let his younger brother.

Shen Chengyao and his wife were silent, of course they wanted both children to study, but now this little bit of silver, used for reading, is not enough to see at all, but they dare not discourage the enthusiasm of their children.

"No one is missing, you all go, I think of a way to make money, you wait. After speaking, Xiao'er got off the kang, went back to her room, and took out the silk flowers, head flowers, and small puppets she had made before to show them.

"Xiao'er, where did this come from, it's so beautiful. The Liu family couldn't put it down when they saw these things, and the two brothers were also very interested in those little puppets, and Shen Chengyao didn't feel anything except that they were fresh.

"This is what I made, I made it from the rags I bought last time, let's make more and sell it in the county, do you think we can make money?"

"Sure, this little puppet is made of different sizes, there are many rich young ladies in the city, we will definitely be able to sell it." Jing Rui was reluctant to let go of a little tiger.

"Such a cute puppet, it makes no sense if no one buys it. Jing Hao hugged Mickey Mouse and looked left and right.

"Xiao'er, you teach your mother to do it, hurry up and make it, do more, there are still more than two months to go before the New Year, when the time comes, go to the market to sell, there must be many women to buy. "For the New Year, many people are willing to spend some silver, after all, it is for a year to do it. This year, she has money on hand, and she wants to buy new clothes for a few children. Now she is in a hurry every day, using a white muslin that Xiao'er bought back last time to make a middle coat for the family first, and the cotton clothes will be made later, and now the new cotton has just come down, and the price is expensive.

Xiao'er felt that the Liu family had a bit of business acumen and could be cultivated.

"Then Daddy went to the mountains to hunt and dig herbs. ”

"I'm going with my dad too. ”

"I'll go too. The two little men hurriedly agreed.

"It's okay to go, but you can't go to the mountains, you know?" Liu looked at them amusedly.

All three of them remembered the last incident and nodded their heads in response.

Liu remembered that Shen Chengyao would ask Yun'er for news every time he went to the county, so he asked, "His father, is there any news from the yamen?"

Shen Chengyao shook his head in disbelief when he heard this, and Liu Shi didn't say anything when he saw this, and the atmosphere suddenly became dull.

Xiao'er saw that since she mentioned it, she had to seize the opportunity to ask Shen Yun'er about it.

"Mother, did my father go to the yamen to ask my sister Yun'er about it?"

Liu touched Xiao'er's head: "Yes, Xiao'er still remembers that her sister's name is Yun'er." I don't know where my daughter is now, whether she has suffered hardship, whether she has been beaten and starved, and when she thinks of this, Liu's eyes are red again.

"I remember, I think there has been no news from the yamen for so long, could it be that she checked the wrong direction, or that my sister was not taken away by someone abducted?"

"What is it that wasn't taken away by someone kidnapping?" Liu Shi forgot to be sad when he heard this. Then she thought of the fact that she didn't know anything about Li's selling Xiao'er beforehand, and the blood on her face faded instantly, how could she not have imagined that it must be, the year before last, it was clear that the government had caught a person who had been abducted, and she had also confessed several children, but there was no news of Yun'er. Thinking of this, her tears poured out like water without a levee: "Yun'er, my mother is sorry for you, my Yun'er, woo woo......"

Shen Chengyao also thought about it, and his hands couldn't stop shaking with anger and fear: "No, it won't ......"

"Daddy, don't be sad now, I'm also guessing, tell me about the situation at the time, how did my sister lose it?"

"Yun'er didn't see that day was the market day, because some time ago something happened to the shop, there was no business for two market days, your aunt went home to live for a few days, you two sisters loved to her room in the past few days to pester her to give you delicious food, on the day of the market, your sister pestered me and said that I wanted to go to the town with your aunt to play, I was entangled in a rut, your aunt also said, anyway, the shop is fine, she will be optimistic, so she went, who knows, came back at night and said that the business was too busy, and I didn't care about it for a while, and I didn't find it for an afternoon. ”

"Didn't Dad go to help that day?"

Shen Chengyao shook his head, if only he went, Yun'er would definitely not be lost.

"Isn't the shop a bad business, your father didn't go to the market last day. ”

"What happened to the shop, why is the business bad?Since it has been bad for a while, why is it suddenly so good that it can't take care of the children?" Xiao'er felt that the matter should be related to the accident in the shop.

"The shop sold a new food called sword beans, the sword beans were poisonous, and a family bought them back for his daughter to eat, and his daughter was poisoned and died, and the family went to the shop at two ends in three days to make trouble, and the business was naturally not good. ”

A human life lawsuit, that's a big deal.

"And how did you solve it?"

Shen Chengyao and Liu glanced at each other, and they were not very clear: "I heard your master say that it seems to have lost money, and it seems to be a misunderstanding, and the beans are not only eaten by him, and other people's families are fine." We don't know very well either. ”

Xiao'er understands why, sword beans are also called green beans, and this dish must be cooked thoroughly before eating, otherwise it will be poisonous. The two things don't sound related, but Xiao'er always feels that it's inappropriate, is it to lose money with the money she sold Yun'er.

Shen Chengyao remembered that the family also felt pitiful for them: "Alas, that family is also pitiful, I heard that their husband and wife have not been out for many years, and they only picked up a pair of dragon and phoenix fetuses to raise at the age of nearly forty, but they are all weak and sickly, and they need to take medicine every day, and the family is also dragged down because of this, and now the girl is still gone." ”

"That couple can't have children?" she thought, "Dad, where are the couple now?"

"I don't know, what's wrong?" Shen Chengyao was surprised by Xiao'er's excitement.

"I think my sister is right there with them!"